Kirstie Alley, whose role as Rebecca Howe in the US sitcom Cheers propelled her to stardom in the 1980s and 1990s, has died from cancer at the age of 71.
A statement from her family, posted on social media through her official accounts, described her as an “amazing mother and grandmother”.
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